Alleged CapitalOne Hacker Barely Bothered to Hide August 2, 2019 By Gene Johnson and Frank Bajak SEATTLE — The 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer accused of hacking CapitalOne made little attempt to hide her attack. In...
Capital One Touted the Cloud’s Safety as Hacker Was Breaching It July 31, 2019 By Jenny Surane and Lananh Nguyen Capital One Financial Corp., in recent years, has beat the drum every chance it got: The cloud is cheaper. The...
Tipster’s Email Led to Arrest in Massive Capital One Breach July 30, 2019 By Christian Berthelsen, William Turton and Jenny Surane Capital One Financial Corp. set up an email address for tipsters — including “white hat” hackers — to alert the...
Capital One Says Breach Hit 100 Million Individuals in U.S. July 30, 2019 By Christian Berthelsen, Matt Day and William Turton Capital One Financial Corp. said data from about 100 million people in the U.S. was illegally accessed after prosecutors accused...
Premera Blue Cross Pays States $10 Million over Data Breach July 15, 2019 By Gene Johnson SEATTLE — Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to...
Marriott Faces $124 Million Fine From U.K. for Data Hacking July 9, 2019 By Patrick Clark and Jonathan Browning The massive hacking of Marriott International Inc. reservation databases could lead to a 99 million-pound ($124 million) fine as the...
Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over 29 Million-User Data Breach June 24, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of...
Watchdog Says FEMA Wrongly Released Survivors’ Personal Information March 26, 2019 By Colleen Long WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million survivors of...
50 Restaurants, Hotels Across Arizona Hit with Data Breach February 20, 2019 A data breach may have compromised the personal information of customers who patronized any of 50 Arizona businesses last month....
Marriott CFO Says $1B Cyber Breach Estimate Premature December 6, 2018 By Patrick Clark It’s too soon for Marriott International Inc. to estimate the cost of the massive cyber breach that the company disclosed...